From the BBC:
President Bush has acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons and said 14 key terrorist suspects have now been sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The suspects, who include the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have now been moved out of CIA custody and will face trial.
Mr Bush said the prisons were a vital tool in the war on terror and that intelligence gathered had saved lives.
He added that the CIA treated detainees humanely and did not use torture.
He said all suspects would be afforded protection under the Geneva Conventions.
What Bush is saying about torture not being used on the terror suspects has of course turned out long time ago to be a pile of horseshit, with the disclosure of the tactics used by the US intelligence, including water-boarding, electric shocks, suspension from ceilings, severe beatings, sexual abuse.
These are all tactics which are no different from the ones used in Egypt’s Lazoughly or Gaber Ibn Hayan.
Egypt has also been one of the center points in the US-run global gulag, where a suspect enters, and just “disappears.”
When you get the time, please check this HRW report I co-authored on the fate of rendered Islamist suspects to Cairo.